I don't regret a single penny I send to Heroku every month. It's just worth it for smaller to medium-sized projects when you don't have in-house dev-ops. Especi

I don't regret a single penny I send to Heroku every month. It's just worth it for smaller to medium-sized projects when you don't have in-house dev-ops. Especially so for side projects when time is scarce. I've attempted a number of times to bootstrap up my apps on DO, AWS, docker stuff, etc - all in anger. The Heroku tax is less than the time spent configuring, maintaining and monitoring my own servers. In economic terms, this is called opportunity cost. That's time I could spent building features or playing guitar.